Yawn... Wakey Wakey...!!! #3

Good morning Steve,Woo and everyone,

I expect you are both still in bed now that you have already been and posted on here.You will have to tell me your secret as to how you manage to keep awake until the early hours:ywn::snz::D

Steve,the compost looks fine for the carrots.The best thing to do is experiment with a few to see what happens and depending on the results will help you decide the best action for next year.Are you going to grow the carrots in the builders bags or somwhere else? I've been using those bags on my allotment for a number of years now as somewhere to store my compost and leaf mould ready for use,but I always think they are too deep just for ordinary vegetables so as yet although we have had a few good crops of self sown spuds out of a couple of ours.Please let us know how you get on:thmb:

Well we have had a heavy frost again this morning but the sun is coming up and it looks as if it will be a lovely day:D Did some grocery shopping in the morning and then in the afternoon drove with Mr Kandy over to our local rezzie and had an hours cycling all round it.It was a bit cold and breezy but it was a good workout,the only downside was getting splashed with mud a few times up the back of our coats:p

Hope you all have a great day in all that you do

 

Hi Woo and Kandy...just got up..quick coffee then out.

Kandy, I'm not sowing in the builders bags....just temp storing it in as such for a few weeks. As I see it this is no longer manure but compost so want to use it everywhere as a soil conditioner/improver but I have read in many places not to use manure where you intend to sow carrots due to forking issues. I wondered if I might get away with using this as its matured for 5 years or more.

Many thanks!

Steve...

 

Hi Steve,if the compost has been rotted for five years and is nice and crumbly as your photo shows then I don't think you will have a problem but you won't find out until you try.I never mind if my carrots fork as usually you end up with two carrots for the price of one which to me is a bonus.Your compost will make a fantastic soil conditioner but for me I am better off using it later on in the summer because if I put too much on the soil at this time of the year it covers any flower seedlings that are starting to germinate so use most of mine in the summer months as a mulch but for you with your new beds etc you probably won't have that problem.

Hope Anne is ok and that you both have a good day:thmb:

 

Morning friends :luv:
It's a lovely start to the day here. Shiney I enjoy my bath and it's even better if I get a cup of tea. I shout for one but mostly get ignored :hehe:

Enjoy making the most of the sunshine everyone. No family visiting this weekend as next weekend we will do it [Mothers Day] We are deciding what to do here- something nice in the way of a walk I think.

 

Good morning everyone,

Its going to be a nice day here, +8!!

 

good morning everyone, wasnt on pc yesterday had that much to do in the new flat and was out shopping went to a craft shop and got beads and pretty decorative flowers and got some oddments of pretty material busy making lovely stuffed hearts they look gorgeous.
off out today back up to craft shop run out of beads etc.
going to B&Q on wednsday for my decking they are in sale so hopefully my yard will get started this week, weather is fine a lot warmer and sunny so hoping it stays like this.
have a great day all

 

Good morning Rosa and everyone,

Been up for an hour but been busy answering emails and catching up with posts on other forums so plus having breakfast so have only just got on here:D

Rosa,sounds like you have been busy with your new flat and hope that you and Roxy are settling in ok.Did you have to take hubby to the airport this morning so you could have the car?

Hope you have a good day out

Mr Kandy is off work this week so he is hoping for good weather so he can gets things done outisde.If the weather was bad he was going to start on the decorating so will see what happens.I think it would be easier to have someone in to do it:D

Shiney how did Mrs Shiney get on with her glass works?

Have a good day everyone

 

Good morning everyone,

Supposed to be another nice day here, sunny and +8!!

 

Good morning Woo and everyone,

Looks like we didn't have a frost last night and the sky clouds look mixed so will see what today brings.:D

Woo,hope the weather is good today for your eraly morning flight as it isn't good when the weather is rough and you get your wings damp and soggy:p

Shiney glad to hear that people were interested in Mrs Shiney's glass and hope they do well in the charity sales.

Well yesterday was a bit of a slow day as we went to B&Q get a replacement bulb for one of our under kitchen cupboards and then ended up looking at flooring because I am trying to persuade Mr Kandy to have flooring in the hall instead of carpet as it will be better to keep clean,especially when Mr Kandy and the cats leave muddy footprints when it is wet on the carpet instead of taking off their shoes at the front door but can't decide whether the real wood is better to have than the cheap laminate sort as we have never looked into it before so don't really know much about it.Must have a Google me thinks:D

Also discovered a new PC World that has opened and also a Maplins so thta kept us quiet for an hour looking round those two shops,then went across to Wickes and got some new kitchen taps because the old ones are worn out so have got some with ceramic discs in them instead so they will last longer:p

Anyway,Mr Kandy is still in bed so don't know what is happening today so hope you all have a good one

 

Morning Shiney,

We always take our shoes off at the front door and put them on there but sometimes Mr Kandy forgets something and walks straight back into the house with his trainers on or like last weekend he was carrying in the shopping and never bothered to take them off first.I usually stand at the door and take the bags off of him but sometimes he can be so lazy and then brings mud in and I am the one that has to hoover it up:( We always wear slippers and take our shoes off in other peoples houses even when they say there is no need but most of the time at home I like to walk round bare foot although i can't do that so much now with my sugar problem.We will ask a friend in the village who lays thses floors for a living as i know he said years ago when we had the dog that dogs can slip over on them:pThanks for the advice though:luv:

Oh dear Mr Kandy has just told me the groundworkers have arrived at the plot next door ready to start their work on building the two houses next door to us so I had better make the most of the sunlight before it goes forever